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The co-founder of Specsavers, Mary Perkins, was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2007 in recognition of her services to business and the community in Guernsey.
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Mary Pickford ( April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979 ) was a Canadian motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In 1895 he married Mary Victoria Leiter, the daughter of Levi Ziegler Leiter, an American millionaire of German Mennonite origin and co-founder of the Chicago department store Field & Leiter ( now Marshall Field ).
Legend has it that the new independent took a detour straight into the major studio camp when Zanuck became outraged by United Artists ' board including UA's co-founder Mary Pickford's refusal to reward Twentieth Century with UA stock, fearing it would have diluted the value of holdings by another UA stockholder and co-founder, D. W. Griffith.
Mary Antoinette Perry ( June 27, 1888June 28, 1946 ) was an actress, director and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing.
That year, 1982, Parkinson left the BBC to be co-founder and presenter on the ITV breakfast television station TV-am, where after many schedule upheavals he ended up presenting the Sunday morning programme with his wife, Mary Parkinson.
Nina Mary Benita Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton ( 13 May 1878 – 12 January 1951 ) was the co-founder in 1903 of the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, with Lizzy Lind af Hageby, and in 1912 became a founder of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection, which went on to become Advocates for Animals.
Mary MacKillop, co-founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart | Josephite Sisters became Australia's first canonised saint in October 2010.
Politically his sympathies are not clear ; some claim he was a radical, but this is not borne out by known facts ; although he knew William Godwin, the ageing reformed revolutionist, husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Shelley ; and John Hunt, co-founder of The Examiner.
Mary White Ovington ( April 11, 1865 – July 15, 1951 ) was an American suffragette, Republican, Unitarian, journalist, and co-founder of the NAACP.
Adela Constantia Mary Pankhurst Walsh ( 1885 – 1961 ) was a British-Australian suffragette, political organizer, and co-founder of both the Communist Party of Australia and the Australia First Movement.
Mary Davies ( 27 February 1855-22 June 1930 ) was a Welsh mezzo-soprano and the co-founder and first President of the Welsh Folk Song Society.
The Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara, T. O. C. D., was the co-founder and first Prior General of the first congregration for men in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, now known as the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate, and of a similar one for women, the Sisters of the Mother of Carmel.
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* 20-Eugene Kleiner, 80, entrepreneur and co-founder of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers venture capital firm.
The most successful were Noyce and Moore, founders of Intel, and Kleiner, co-founder of the Kleiner Perkins venture capital firm.
Perkins, co-founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, had agreed to invest in the technology when Sloot died ; Perkins and Pieper would have proceeded after Sloot's death, but a key piece of the technology, a compiler stored on a floppy disk, had disappeared and despite months of searching was never recovered.
The leader and co-founder is Stephen Perkins, who first played drums for Jane's Addiction ( 1986 – 1991, plus later regroupings ), and then for Porno for Pyros.
* Philip Will, Jr, co-founder of architecture firm Perkins + Will and President of the American Institute of Architects.
Nor has computer innovation in itself been neglected, with the photo software entrepreneur Lars Perkins — co-founder of Picasa — a relatively recent alumnus.
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Albert Goodwill Spalding ( Byron, Illinois September 2, 1850 – September 9, 1915 in Point Loma, San Diego, California ) was a professional baseball player, manager and co-founder of A. G. Spalding sporting goods company.
Alzheimer was the co-founder and co-publisher of the journal Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie, though he never wrote a book that he could call his own.
Akio Morita ( 盛田 昭夫 Morita Akio, January 26, 1921, Nagoya, Aichi – October 3, 1999, Tokyo ) was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony Corporation along with Masaru Ibuka.
Apple's board of directors decided NeXTSTEP was a better choice and purchased NeXT in 1996 for $ 429 million, bringing back Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
Considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western swing, he was universally known as the King of Western Swing.
He was a prominent person during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder and chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d ' Alembert.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD ( 9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917 ), was an English physician and feminist, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain, the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first woman M. D.
Francis Xavier, born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta ( 7 April 1506 – 3 December 1552 ) was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary born in the Kingdom of Navarre ( now part of Spain ) and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.
At Gen Con 2012, FASA Games, Inc. was revealed, which includes FASA Corporation co-founder Ross Babcock on the Board of Directors.
It was at this time that he first met Ernst Röhm, an early member of the Nazi party and co-founder of the Sturmabteilung (" Storm Battalion "; SA ).
Wells was a diabetic, and a co-founder in 1934 of what is now Diabetes UK, the leading charity for people living with diabetes in the UK.
A description of housing of the mill workers in England in 1844 was given by Friedrich Engels, a co-founder of Marxism.
( The Tiptree cookbook The Bakery Men Don't See, edited by WisCon co-founder Jeanne Gomoll, was nominated for a 1992 Hugo Award.
American kickboxing was promulgated in Germany from its inception in the 1970s by Georg F. Brückner who in 1976 was co-founder of the World Association of Kickboxing Organizations.
Lamar Hunt, who was founder or co-founder of the American Football League, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Chicago Bulls, the United Soccer Association, and Major League Soccer, also founded the team.
American Peter J. McGuire, co-founder of the American Federation of Labor, was asked to speak at a labour festival in Toronto, Canada on July 22, 1882.
After the PZPR was dissolved, Leszek Miller became a co-founder of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic ( till March 1993, he was Secretary General, then Deputy Chairman and, from December 1997, the Chairman of that party ).
Duval became the co-founder of Mandrakesoft, but was laid off from the company in 2006 along with many other employees.
Mordecai Menahem Kaplan ( June 11, 1881 – November 8, 1983 ), was a rabbi, essayist and Jewish educator and the co-founder of Reconstructionist Judaism along with his son-in-law Ira Eisenstein.
NeXT was founded in 1985 by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs after he was fired from Apple the same year.
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